Spindletop
Classification:
3 W-Y[ Small-Cupped ]
Season:
Spring
Height:
Standard - 32.5 to 67.5 cm (12.8 to 26.6 in)
Hybridizer:
Registered:
Yes, 1972
Seed Parent: 
Blarney 3 W-OOY 
J. Lionel Richardson, Ireland
Year Registered: 1935
Mitylene x Sunstar
Blarney
Pollen Parent: 
Aircastle 3 W-Y 
Grant E. Mitsch, United States
Year Registered: 1958
Green Island x Chinese White
Aircastle
Pedigree Chart:
Used as parent:
1 time as seed,1 time as pollen
Descendants:
Comments

Fl. 91 mm wide; perianth segments broadly ovate, prominently mucronate, spreading, smooth, concave, overlapping half; the inner segments a little narrower, not mucronate, with margins sometimes notched; corona bowl-shaped, shallow, tightly ribbed and frilled.

 

Awarded the RHS AGM in 2003 and the AGM was withdrawn in 2017 because stock had been destroyed.  A key requirement of an AGM is that the plant can be obtained by gardeners in the United Kingdom.